Marvin Wolfgang's 1958 study, Patterns in Criminal Homicide is an example of which subarea of the criminological enterprise?

a. developing theories of crime causation
b. understanding and describing criminal behavior
c. criminal statistics/crime measurement
d. sociology of law


B

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